The Premade Group Finder lets you quickly find players for a variety of content. This guide focuses on how to create and find groups, as well as different cool things you can use Premade Group Finder for. You can find groups hunting for rare spawns that drop mounts, join a Garrison for the profession trader, or grind out Draenor reputations among other things.

Warlords of Draenor is nearly here with The Iron Tide prepatch. In this patch, you will find all systems changes, including class buffs and nerfs, the Toy Box, new character models, and the Group Finder!

Perculia and Olivia hosted a 6.0.2 Q&A yesterday covering popular topics like Garrosh heirlooms, character models, and the new UBRS:

We also have a video of Blizzard's own 6.0.2 Survival Guide :

Below we've listed our most popular guides for the prepatch, covering what's new, the event in the Blasted Lands/UBRS, gearing changes, and how to play your class in the patch. Also do keep in mind that if you do not see 6.0.2 information on a database page or some links look odd, it is most likely due to cache. The database is updated on our end, just clear your browser cache to update the page.

Gear Changes:

Patch 6.0.2: The Iron Tide hits with a special prelaunch event featuring the Iron Horde. This features an instance with special armor and a new Blasted Lands questline that can only be completed for a few weeks.

Completing the level 90 version of Upper Blackrock Spire rewards special ilvl 550 loot, some of which resembles popular old items. We've included loot tables and strategies in our guide.

Class information is a crucial resource for players in the prepatch with all the spell changes, so our expert guide writers have updated their beginner class guides for the prepatch and level 100. We've gone for brevity, to give you just the core facts you need to get started, without bogging you down with hugely detailed strategies.

We also have extensive list of class changes throughout the Warlords of Draenor beta. They are organized by spell type and then what's new, changed. and removed. We've also included pictures of changed spell effects and new Tier armor.

This guide covers all the content and system updates coming in the Warlords of Draenor prepatch--before the expansion hits.

The Warlords of Draenor prepatch is coming on October 14th. This patch contains many system and UI changes for Warlords of Draenor--you just can’t access Draenor content or level to 100. You can access things in the prepatch like new character models, the 6.0 prelaunch event, the Toy Box, and new raid difficulties.

The prepatch also removes some Mists of Pandaria content, such as starting the legendary questline, finishing MoP Challenge Modes, obtaining the Reins of the Kor'kron War Wolf, and purchasing heirlooms for Justice Points. We’ve put together a guide documenting everything that’s going away if you want to obtain some vanity gear and achievements before it’s too late!

It's been slow over the holidays for Blizzard posts, but today we've got a discussion on LFR, Flex, and the new Group Finder tool in Warlords of Draenor. Many players dissatisfied by the impersonal and unchallenging aspects of LFR have since embraced Flex, which allows them to have meaningful progression with friends on a busy schedule.

Due to the success of Flex raiding, Blizzard is implementing a new Group Finder tool in Warlords of Draenor so people can find cross-realm groups for pretty much everything. The addition of the Group Finder tool may even lead to some LFR tuning changes--since raiders on a busy schedule will be drawn towards the Group Finder instead of LFR.

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CM Lore also posted a lengthy clarification on the difference between the cross-realm functionality coming to the existing Raid Browser tool in 5.4.2 and the completely new Group Finder feature coming in 6.0.

The cross-realm raid finder coming in 5.4.2 allows players to queue Siege of Orgrimmar flex raids and world bosses cross-realm.

The Group Finder coming in 6.0 will let players create cross-realm groups for pretty much anything, not just raids. It will also not be buried in the UI, like the Raid Finder tool.

You can read more about the cross-realm raid browser, which is testable on the PTR, here.

Click the cut to read the new patch notes and group finder clarifications!